Not a new community but I resurrected it from graveyard xD.
I dig it. Great work on all your posts! So much cool shit. Makes me feel like back in the 70s and 80s we had big dreams of where the human race was heading. Many people who didn’t make it past those decades would probably be severely disappointed.
back in the 70s and 80s we had big dreams of where the human race was heading
Eh, we might not have flying cars and moon bases, but we've still done pretty well. We have the internet, smartphones, electric cars, and 3D printers. Medicine continues chugging along nicely, infant mortality is down, and literacy is up.
Thanks! I love it!
Seems a bit odd to have so much standard, correct-era tech. Having anachronism seems like the point, the futurism bit. Like Quadrilateral Cowboy, or often Cowboy Bebop.
The one exception may be the stuff like that Nissan 300ZX (1985) digital dashboard, that feels anachronistic in an entirely different way. I could imagine a 3hr video essay on how expensive the design was, or perhaps a Technology Connections breakdown of the functionality/workings/issues etc.
You've found a way to sum up how I feel. I haven't been able to put it in words, but the place definitely has a different vibe post-ressurection
That's not to say I'm not happy to see more activity. I just miss the "fantasy retro" computers
thank you for yr service! i love it!
I thought the idea of cassette futurism is to show fictitious retrofuturistic tech. Specifically how 70s and 80s tech would look like in the (far-) future. and not how the actual tech looked in that time period, no matter how futuristic it looked back then.
What i expected to see was Alien and Blade Runner aesthetics and not GameBoy and Commodore. As it is now, it is simply “pictures of old tech”.
Well both are considered Cassette Futurism. It can be just plain old tech.
Even some wiki I found about Cassette Futurism shows NES and Gameboy.
Very underated imo
